Gravity is Not Intuitive

You don’t have to jump off a chair to move across curved space-time. Just sitting there you are moving in the “time” direction at the speed of light. Indeed, you are always moving in spacetime, and it is impossible for you to stop!

Everything moves at the speed of light in spacetime. Light just uses as much of this velocity as possible to move in space, while typically objects use most of this speed to move in the time direction instead.

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